Although castrations are routine procedures for many equine practitioners, the risk for complications remains. And while most complications are generally mild, some have life-threatening implications.

Castration is normally performed on colts to make them more tractable and easier to handle. When the horse has minimal breeding value, the procedure normally takes place once the horse is skeletally ...

She also noted the gelding procedure has a mortality rate of 5 percent. Older stallions are particularly at risk, as shown this summer when a popular 25-year-old Utah stud died after castration. Brian ...

A onetime free-roaming Utah stallion, whose picture sparked an Internet campaign demanding his release, died last week of a heart attack at a BLM holding corral in Delta as a veterinarian was gelding ...